Gordon confirmed that he hopes to recruit original 24 cast members for the new episodes, with the show's original writers Evan Katz, Manny Coto, David Fury and Chip Johannessen also in talks for the new episodes.

"Everyone [on the writing team] is coming off a show or has got a deal wherein they've got some time," he explained. "Some of them are on Homeland - so they can come in and pinch-hit."

Following 24's original cancellation in 2010, Kiefer Sutherland starred in the Fox drama series Touch - from Heroes creator Tim Kring - but that show has now been dropped by the network.